Hub-securing device.



J. A. WEITZEL.

HUB SBGUBIHG DEVICE.

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Patented Oct. 27, 1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. WEITZEL, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

HUB-SECURING DEVICE skilled in the art to which it appertains to makeand use the same.

My invention relates to certain improvements in hub-securing devices.

It has for its object to provide for securing the simple, expeditiousand effective locking of the hub in place in connection with the axleskein; also to recover waste lubricant for its reutilization upon thehearing.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, combination and arrange ment of parts aswill be described and particularly pointed out in the appended F claims.

In the accompanying drawing, illustrating the preferred embodiment of myinvention, Figure 1 is a plan view thereof; Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsectional view taken on the line 55 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a verticalsectional View taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a likesectional view produced upon the line 44of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a detailedvertical sectional view disclosing more especially the stressed lockingpawl employed herein. Fig. 6 is a sectional perspective view of theouter end of the axle.

In carrying out my invention I provide the axle-skein, 1, with a pocketor chamber, 2. Said pocket or chamber is provided in its lateral wallwith recesses, 3, 4-, one at its inner end and the other near its outerend, said recesses having their relatively outer surfaces or wallsproduced upon oppositely inclined or spiral lines, as disclosed, thepurpose of which will presently appear. Said pocket has also in itslateral wall, at its entrance, a rectangular, lateral extension orenlargement, 5, in communication with the outer lateral recess orenlargement, 4. Said socket has also in its lateral wall a longitudinalor axial recess or passage, 6, intersecting the angular recesses orextensions, 3, 4.

A locking key, 7, having extending from diagonally opposite portionsthereof lugs, 8, 9, is adapted to be inserted into the pocket PatentedOct. 27, 1908.

1908. Serial No. 435,462.

of the axle-skein, said lu s engaging the lateral recess therein and aso the spiral faces of the shoulders thereof, and whereby, as it isturned to its final position, said key is retained in locked position insaid axle-skein.

An annular locking washer member, 10, fits against the outer end of theaxle-skein and has a tubular, axial projection, 11, entering the pocket,2, of the axle-skein, said extension or projection, 11, having a laterallug or extension, 12, received by the socket extension, 5. Said lug orextension 12 has its upper surface recessed or rounded out to form adrain passage, and in the outer end of the axle-skein, 1, opposite theentranceend recess, 5, thereof, is a depression or recess, 13, forming apassa e for draining the otherwise waste liquid ubricant into the wastelubricant passage formed by the recessed lug or projection, 12, thelubricant passing from the latter down into the bottom of the pocket orchamber, 2, of the axleskein, and finally, out through an opening, 14,in said axle-skein bottom lnto the hub or thus being prevented fromwasting.

A nut, 15, is adapted to be placed upon the projecting end of thelocking key, 7, and has its coincident apertures, 16, therein adapted toreceive a pin, 17, insertible therethrough, and a registering apertureor passage, 18, in said locking key for the retention of said nutthereon. Said nut is eguipped with a spring stressed pawl, 19, a aptedto engage a clrcular arrangement of ratchet teeth in an annular portionof the washer,- 10, for the retention of said nut with the key-lockinpin against rotation or displacement, the latter being common in aformer patent of mine.

It will be seen from the fore oing that a two-fold locking action isobtained for the washer and nut-locking key. Therefore, a more effectivemeans of fastening is obtained thereby, as will be readily appreciated,and that means is provided for preventing the waste of lubricant, andreturning the same to dthe bearing upon which it was originally fe Fromthe foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, the construction and operation of the invention will be readilyunderstood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Var1ous changes in the. form, proportion and the minor details ofconstruction may bearing for reusing the lubricant, the latter beresorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any ofthe advantages of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters-Patent, is:

l. A device of the class described, enibracing an axle-skein having apocket provided with shoulders therein, a locking key having diagonallyopposed lugs effective for engagement with said shoulders, and means forthe retention of said key in locked position.

2. A device of the character described, embracing an axl'e -skei'nhaving a pocket provided with a plurality of houlders having spiralsurfaces, a locking key having diagonally opposed lugs adapted forengagement with said surfaces, and locking means for said key. v

a A device of the character described, embracing an aXle-skein having apocket provided with inner and outer end annular recesses, a locking keyhaving diagonally opposed lugs engaging said recesses, and looking meansfor said key. 4

4:. A device of the class describedcomprising an aXle-skein having apocket provided with spaced apart annular recesses, the walls thereofhaving spiral or inclined surfaces, a l'ocking key havin diagonallyopposed ln s engaging said wal s, and lockin means or said key.

a. A device of the character described embracing an aXle-s'kein providedwith a pocket having inner and outer end annular recesses with theirWalls formed on spiral lines, alockin key having diagonally opposed lu se ective for enga'ement with said Walls, and locking means or said key,

6. A device of the character described embracing an axle s'kei'n havingannular recesses' therein, a locking key havin j diagonally opposed lugsadapted for lockin'g action with said recesses, and locking means forsaid key embracing a locked nut and a retaining pin passing through saidnut and a registering opening. in sai foc'king ke 7. A device of thechaacte'r descri'ed, embracin an aXle-s'kein 'aving a "ticket andprovided with spaced apart annu r recesses, a locking key hav indiagonal y opposed lugs adapted for locl ting' action with saidrecesses, a washer member, a nut member arranged upon said lockin' key,and locking means for said nut an Washer in connection With said ke a 8.A device of the character described embracing an axle-skein having apocket provi-ded with spaced apart recesses, said axleskein' also havingat lts entrance an extended recess, a locking key having diagonallyopposed lugs adapted for locking action with said recess and insertiblethrough said extended entrance opening, and locking means for said key.

, 9. A device of the character described embracing an axle-skein havingspaced apart annular recesses, said recesses being connected together attheir bottoms by a longitudinal recess 01' passage, and said axle havingits pocket provided at the entrance end with an extended 0 eningcommunicating with the outer one oi said annular recesses, a locking keyhaving lugs for engagement with said recesses and passing through saidlongitudinal passage and said extended opening, and locking means forsaid key.

10'. A device of the class described embracing an axle-skein having apocket, said pocket having at its entrance end an extended opening, alocking key effective for engagement wlth said pocket, and locking meansapplicable to said locking key, one member; of said locking means havinga recessed lug ada ted to form a assage for the drainage o lubricantinto said pocket.

11. A device of the character described embracing an aXle-skein having apocket, the entrance end of said pocket having an extended opening, saidaXle-skein having also a recess opposed to said extended opening, alockin key for engagement with said pocket, and ocking means for saidkey, one member of said lOCk-ing means having a lug adapted to form apassage for combining with the lateral recess in said axle-skein foreffecting the drainage of Waste lubricant into said pocket. k

12. A device of the character described embracing an axle-skein having apocket, a locking-key having engagement with said pocket, a lockingWasher for engagement with said aXle-skein having a tubular extensionthereon intersecting said pocket and provided with a lateral lug roundedout in its upper surface to form a drain passage, said a'XIeske'inhaving an end recess opposed to said rounded out lug, and means forlocking sa'id washer and locking key in place.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JOHN A. WEITZEL.

Witnesses HENRY W. LIOKINGER, Jenn A. SPAGHER.

